US Patent Issued to IGT on Oct. 6 for "Historical event based determinations" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,604, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Historical event based determinations" was invented by Nicholas Jon Scheffel (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Historical horse race gaming systems and methods that employ the randomness of selecting one or more correct horse race finishers to obtain a direct pseudo random number generation that functions as a weighted random determination for randomly determining an outcome of a play of a game such as but not limited to a reel game, a card game, a keno game, a dice game, or a roulette game."

The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/529,795.

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